Using Age in Birthday Speeches

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Summary: Mention the age during a birthday speech whether the subject likes it or not. Learn to give a great birthday speech referencing age from an award-winning public speaker in this free public speaking video.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Using Age in Birthday Speeches

Ok, so you've done your great introduction, you have commented on the time line and the party location and circumstances, so we're ready to move on and really get to what I call the meat and potatoes of the speech. And you can also call this the body in technical terms. Alright the first thing that we want to do is we want to mention their age. Whether they like it or not OK. Jim we all know you're forty. Or Sally the big Five O, the big fifty or whatever their age is go ahead and mention it at this time. And then we're going to just talk a little bit about the uniqueness of that age. If it so calls for it, now you know is there anything really unique about twenty four? Not really. But you know there's those big numbers, for women it's twenty nine because they seem to never get over the twenty nine, it's a real mystery. Thirty, Forty, Fifty, and if you're presenting a speech for someone turning one of those ages or like a hundred. OK. There's something unique about that and you want to mention that and highlight and talk about how great it is. Then we are going to take a glance back and I'm going to talk about that in the next clip.